This was an absolutely lousy card. Was. With the old timing rules there was no affecting away teams once your opponent has started a mission. But now of course, you can just interfere in between two Dilemmas (and you'd better know what you seeded where as you'll need this knowledge soon). You got some nasty Dilemma that normally can be overcome. Like a Barclay's Disease. Unfortunately your oh-so-well placed Female's love interest failed to get your opponent's Vekor, so he still has a SCIENCE and can pass. Unless you pull your Brain Drain and suddenly make Vekor an empty shell without any grey mass in her head. No SCIENCE, no passing Barclay's... Too bad! And do not forget your opponent cannot do anything about it except Amanda'ing your Brain Drain - you get to choose which one is affected.
Other neat little applications include removing the one Leadership needed for a battle (if your opponent has no OFFICERs present) or getting rid of a Diplomat when your opponent tries to escape from a Borg ship through a Q-Net.
The thing missing from this card is that it does not remove the classification. If this worked, you could hit with a lot more Dilemmas than otherwise as most of them do count more classifications than skills. Getting rid of a pesky ENGINEER or MEDICAL in the right moment could prove beneficial...
And the other function? Double Interphasic Plasma Creatures. [Insert a 2 minute gap here while I scramble for my FAQ file to look up whether that was effect or condition - ah, it's effect.] So you can lower the Strength rating of affected personnel by 4 instead of 2. Which might sometimes prove handy. If you do something that requires Strength later on. So if you plan on doing this, you'd better use Chalnoths, Nausicaans or Rebel Encounters. Or Rogue Borg. Or plain Away team battles. Otherwise it's not really useful.
An average card with incredible surprise value. But a little tricky to use efficiently and you need a good memory to make sure your Dilemmas are what you think they are.
Wesley's rating: 5.501 Cole's rating: 4.5 Data's rating: 7.5 Jack's rating: 6.3 John's rating: 7.5 Q's rating: 6.5 Ray's rating: 7.9 Richard's rating: 6.5 Tony's rating: 6.0 ---------------------- AVERAGE RATING: 6.5
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